The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it

In Islamic law the world was made up of the ''House of Islam'' and the ''House of War'' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no ''iron curtain'' between the Ottoman and ''other'' worlds but rather a long-es...